Cambridge Healthcare has clinched an exclusive partnership agreement with Microsoft Health UK that sees its award winning How are you? health record technology integrated with Microsofts HealthVault platform.

The partnership will allow for the first time health and fitness data to be transferred automatically from devices such as heart rate watches and blood pressure monitors into an individual's personal health record as well as monitoring of patients outside conventional clinical settings, increasing access to care and decreasing healthcare delivery costs.

The partnership couldnt have come at a better time as the NHS begins to roll out telehealth technologies in millions of homes; with a potential saving reported to be 1.2 billion, the Government is keen to collaborate on the rollout with the private sector.

Prime Minister David Cameron said telehealth, which allows patient health to be monitored by clinicians remotely through broadband enabled technologies, had proven to be a "huge success" after trials.

Cambridge Healthcare, which provides its technology platform free to NHS patients and professionals, believes it is in the perfect position to support the ambitions laid out in Secretary of State for Health Andrew Lansleys NHS White Paper, Equity and excellence: Liberating the NHS.

Dawson King, CEO and founder of Cambridge Healthcare said: The Governments commitment to promoting shared decision-making and information to support informed choices by patients, service users and carers, can only be realised if patients have access and control of their own health records, with the ability to determine who else can access their records.

The partnership announced today brings us one step closer to realising this ambition. We passionately believe that integrated care is essential if the NHS is to the meet the needs of people with long-term conditions, an ageing population and people with complex requirements.

The Microsoft partnership comes only a month after Cambridge Healthcare announced an exclusive licensing agreement that will see its revolutionary technology adopted in China by the largest consumer website and brand, Sina.com.

Sina.com has more than 500 million registered users more than a third of Chinas population. The landmark agreement for the UK company will allow Sina to integrate Cambridge Healthcares technology directly into its health channel, which already provides a number of key services.

Business Weekly understands that another stunning commercial deal for Cambridge Healthcare is close to completion.

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